Why College Board
FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedConnects students to higher education and career opportunities through college readiness programs, standardized testing like the SAT, Advanced Placement courses, and financial aid planning resources.
- Advanced Placement Program Founded in 1955, the Advanced Placement program gives students the opportunity to take college-level coursework and exams in high school. Students who succeed on AP exams are more likely to succeed in college and can potentially earn…$453.3M spent in FY2024
- SAT Suite of Assessments College Board's SAT Suite, which includes the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9, measures what research shows students need to succeed after high school. It also connects students with fee waivers, scholarship opportunities, free, personalized…$203.7M spent in FY2024
- College and Career Opportunities and Enrollment By connecting students to colleges and scholarships, and providing access to credit programs, planning tools, and fee waivers for all who need them, College Board is increasing opportunities and breaking down barriers to college…$121.8M spent in FY2024
Before you apply
FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
The org's own posting, as writtenLead Data Platform Engineer, External Data Analytics College Board - Technology – InfoSec & Infrastructure Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. Type: This is a full-time position About the Team The External Data Analytics team builds and operates the data platform that powers trusted, timely analytics across College Board's exam and AP Classwork programs, including AP Classwork's continuous, year-round data needs.
We're a small, closely knit, cross-functional team (~7 engineers today, and growing) with a mix of data engineering and full-stack backgrounds. We value ownership, thoughtful automation, clear documentation, pragmatic architecture, and keeping students top of mind in everything we build.
About the Opportunity
As the technical lead for the platform, you'll own architecture end-to-end and serve as the final technical authority on the team's hardest problems, operating a level above a senior IC. You'll stay hands-on yourself, writing production infrastructure-as-code and setting the coding standards the team follows, while leading design and implementation across streaming and batch ingestion, curated analytical data products, and reliable data-consumption patterns.
Because our immediate priority is AP Classwork analytics, you'll be designing for continuous, steady-state, year-round throughput and long-running data quality, often working through ambiguity as requirements and priorities evolve; not just a single test-day spike. You will work with contributing domain teams to establish data contracts and ensure data is accurate, governed, secure, and ready for analysis, making and communicating tradeoffs involving scale, performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity along the way.
You'll also set the standard for how the team uses AI-assisted coding responsibly, establishing review practices and guardrails for AI-generated code, and, as a technical anchor for the team, mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the platform. In this role, you will: Own the technical direction, architecture, evolution, and reliability of a shared enterprise data and analytics platform, serving as the team's final technical authority and escalation point. Lead the hands-on design and implementation of streaming and batch data pipelines supporting real-time and historical analysis, independently writing production infrastructure-as-code (CDK/TypeScript).
Design curated, governed analytical data products that provide consistent and trusted information for reporting and decision-making, including for a continuous, year-round data load rather than single-event spikes. Ensure the platform can scale efficiently while meeting expectations for performance, availability, reliability, and cost, including safe recovery from retries…
About College Board
From its Form 990- Budget $1.17B · Education
- Staff 1,968 · founded 1900
- Pays its leaders $465K–$2.0M (12 reported)
- Open jobs 44 · Jobs at College Board · Full 990 report